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An open letter to users of Sterling Highway: It is time to prevent more deaths at Cooper Landing. Join me in writing our Federal delegation. Here is my letter. Senator, The US Forest Service and The Federal Highway Department is morally responsible for the death of a 15-year-old child in Cooper Landing Thursday. The Cooper Landing bypass has been the longest running environmental study in history of the United States. The Forest Service has steadfastly refused to allow the road to be relocated away from the area of the child's death.

...sharp words from people under the misapprehension that they occupy a coequal branch of the American government. What are congressional hearings and the U.S. domestic political debate compared with the "international community"?Shortly after the U...

...Consider what happened to poor Sarah Saldana. New on the job as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, she said in congressional testimony that it would help if Congress passed legislation cracking down on sanctuary cities -- before backing off 24...

...40th annual Resource Development Council for Alaska meeting June 30.Sen. Dan Sullivan said Alaskans and the state's congressional delegation need to "keep making and winning arguments for responsible resource development.""I think it's safe to...

...fiscal year. The VA has committed to work with the Alaska congressional delegation on long term fixes for these two essential programs...Hearing yes, then no, then maybe, and then yes after the congressional delegation inquires isn't the way things are going to...

...gained strength as the Old South figuratively and literally died off. Republicans didn't take a majority of Southern congressional seats until 1994. Not until 2010 did they gain unified control of the Alabama state Legislature.The left doesn't expend...

...right, the Chamber of Commerce was applauding Barack Obama of all people, because he had joined forces with them and their congressional GOP supporters to maneuver passage of trade bill "fast track" authority, which makes it easier to get a massive agreement...

...election to a Democratic Party district seat in Brooklyn by rapping his policy ideas on street corners. In 2012, he ran in a congressional Democratic primary as an Occupy Wall Street candidate, though he lost badly to an incumbent.He's spent the last decade...

...R-Tenn., has crafted a bill that would allow for more congressional input regarding negotiations with Iran. The bill would...agreement and take action. "Senator Murkowski believes in congressional input on foreign affairs," Felling wrote in an email...

Editor's note: this story has been changed to correct that the potato program will require legislative not congressional action for renewal. The future of Alaska's certified seed potato production is up in the air following this year's legislative...